Numinoids

by Alex S. Johnson

This new collection of dark fantasy, horror, Bizarro and experimental works by Doom Hippies author Alex S. Johnson contains such brand new tales as "The Last Reality Cooking Show" and "Harsh Poetica" as well as stories appearing in various anthologies and blog sites.

92 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 2016

About the author

Alex S. Johnson is the author of two novels, Bad Sunset and Jason X IV: Death Moon, the collections Wicked Candy and Doctor Flesh: Director's Cut,the co-author of Fucked Up Shit! with Berti Walker, as well as numerous Bizarro, horror, science fiction and experimental literary stories, including works published in Full-Metal Orgasm, Bizarro Central, Gone Lawn, Ugly Babies Volume 2, Master/slave, Noirotica III, Cthulhu Sex, The Surreal Grotesque, Cease, Cows, and many other venues. He is the creator/editor of the Axes of Evil heavy metal horror anthology series He has also been a music journalist for such magazines as Metal Hammer, Metal Maniacs and Zero Tolerance and a college and university English professor. Johnson currently lives in Sacramento, California.

Reviews

[John J Questore · Rating 4 out of 5]

Let me start by saying Alex S. Johnson is a talented, if not bizarre, writer. His command of the English language is outstanding, even when he is writing about some of the most disconcerting subject matter. Numinoids is a perfect showcase for just how versatile he can be.

I usually write reviews of anthologies with a short commentary of each story. However, I can’t do that for this book – not only because some of them are extremely short, but some just go beyond description. Alex can go from writing a lucid story about some friends and a ghost (The Girl in the Lake) to a psychedelic acid trip that you have to read twice just to catch everything (Numinoids).

While his style is most certainly not for everyone – I mean, who else by Alex could put a story together about a The Big Bad Wolf and a horny Red Riding Hood (F’d Up Fairy Tales), or a story about a priest with an auto-erotic fetish (Church of Odd Knocks) – he is definitely worth giving a try.